On Janurary 1, 2009, 27 year-old BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant as he was being detained. According to the official reports, Oscar was detained as part of 2 groups of young men who were possibly involved in an altercation with each other. Police officers at some point pushed Oscar [...]
With the recent outbreak of police violence towards protesters at the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention, I’ve had a hard time deciding what I wanted to say about the whole series of events. I mean – people knew that this was coming. The conventions are not a place for the public to [...]
With the 2008 Democratic Nation Convention convening on the 25th, there have already been a few voices raised about security and the right to protest. Protesting that the National Conventions seems to be a historical outlet for the nation’s grievances. But it seems that the city of Denver, which is hosting the event, had already [...]
Apparently, all suspects who are arrested by federal agencies in the US will now have their DNA put into a database. They will be adding an estimated 1.2 million people a year to CODIS, the national DNA database that law enforcement agencies use.
The new regulation would mean that the federal government could store DNA samples [...]
